If I haven't released any patches to my customers yet, I first try an "empty" PatchFamily. When the PatchFamily doesn't have any children "...Ref" elements in it, it INCLUDES EVERYTHING to ensure that I have the basic upgrade functionality intact.
After that, I add references to include the fragments with the things I need included if I have a long term plan to support multiple patch families (HINT: most products don't ever need more than one PatchFamily that encompasses everything). -----Original Message----- From: Sharat Janapareddy [mailto:sharat.janapare...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 2:50 PM To: Heath Stewart; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Anandha Ganesan; Clive Eastwood Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to patch standard actions? Nope, I don't see them being updated. I am checking this with Orca. Even the custom actions that I got working, I had to add them to a patch family. Thanks, Sharat Janapareddy ~ 40269 -----Original Message----- From: Heath Stewart Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 2:34 PM To: Sharat Janapareddy; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Clive Eastwood; Anandha Ganesan Subject: RE: How to patch standard actions? If these are added to the upgrade build, they should be pulled in automatically. Is that not happening? Heath Stewart Deployment Technology Group, Microsoft http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths -----Original Message----- From: Sharat Janapareddy Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 2:25 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Clive Eastwood; Anandha Ganesan; Heath Stewart Subject: How to patch standard actions? FYI, I was able to figure out how to include CustomActions in the patch. But the one thing that I don't see in the WIX documentation is how to patch Standard Actions. Thanks, Sharat Janapareddy ~ 40269 -----Original Message----- From: Sharat Janapareddy [mailto:sharat.janapare...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 1:02 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Clive Eastwood; Anandha Ganesan Subject: [WiX-users] How to patch elements in InstallExecuteSequence table? We made some changes to the MSI installer that was released this year and we are releasing the SP soon. One of those changes include adding support to uninstall the patches. For this, we modified some Custom elements in InstallExecuteSequence table of the MSI generating WXS file. (I am not sure if these are the same as CustomActions though!) Anyway, how do we specify in the Patch.wxs that these Custom elements need to be patched? For instance, here's the change which says that we should not run this action when uninstalling the patch - <Custom Action='_GetServiceState' After='_SetADName'><![CDATA[Installed And REMOVE<>"ALL" And Not MSIPATCHREMOVE ]]></Custom> And here's how I listed it in the Patch.wxs - <PatchFamily Id="AgentPatchFamily" Version="1.0.0.1" Supersede="yes"> <!-- Nothing here as of now --> <CustomActionRef Id="_GetServiceState "/> </PatchFamily> I have also tried this way - <Fragment> <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action="_GetServiceState" After="_SetADName" /> <InstallServices Sequence="5800" /> <DeleteServices Sequence="2000" /> </InstallExecuteSequence> </Fragment> However in both the cases, when I generated the patch and applied it to the release MSI through ORCA, I don't see this change at all! Another similar issue is with InstallServices and DeleteServices elements of the same InstallExecuteSequence table. Can someone tell me if this is the right way to do this? Thanks, Sharat Janapareddy ~ 40269 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
